BONNIE Tyler has stayed at number one in France for four weeks - and is proving to be a hit across the rest of Europe.

BONNIE Tyler has stayed at number one in France for four weeks - and is proving to be a hit across the rest of Europe.

The record, a French and English version of her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, has also topped the charts in Belgium, Switzerland and Germany.

Last week it was released in Holland and looks certain to become another big hit there.

With sales of more than 500,000 the disc - a duet featuring French singer Kareen Antonn and renamed Si Demain - has now gone platinum.

"It is incredible, I just cannot believe it," Bonnie, 52, said yesterday.

Her record label Sony made sure she celebrated in style, too, by whisking her over to Paris to appear in a Night of the Proms programme for screening by French TV in April.

Now back in Wales, Bonnie is hard at work recording an album for release in the spring.

"I have done four old songs and all the rest are new," she said.

Her many fans in this country and in Europe could well turn this into another big hit for two of the songs are the ever-popular It's a Heartache and Holding Out for a Hero.

"I will be touring later in the summer in France, Germany and other countries to promote the album," she revealed.

Total Eclipse of the Heart became a global chart-topper when it was originally released 21 years ago and Bonnie admits she still cannot come to terms with the fact that the latest version is proving so enormously popular as well.

"Just think," she said, "I recorded this with a 23-year-old singer 21 years after Total Eclipse went to the top.

"I have been asked many times to record it as a duet but had never found the right person - until I was sent a demo of Kareen Antonn singing it. I thought we would complement each other. But I didn't expect such big things to happen.